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Self-Driving Car Rollout Will Accelerate Under New U.S. Government Plan
Self-driving cars will get closer to appearing on American roads under a U.S. Transportation Department plan to speed their rollout. Regulators will allow automakers that can demonstrate they have a ...
Ironshore Turns to Shanghai with Launch of Lloyd’s China Platform
Ironshore International, now fully owned by Chinese conglomerate Fosun International, is expanding into Shanghai via Lloyd's. The Bermuda-based specialty property/casualty insurer will be doing this ...
RMS CEO Shah Pledges 2016 Cloud-Based Cat Modeling Roll-out
RMS, after months of additional fine-tuning and ironing out kinks, is ready to roll out cloud-based catastrophe risk management system RMS(one) through 2016, co-founder and CEO Hemant Shah said on ...
P/C Execs Predict Cyber Growth and a Democrat in the White House
Leaders of the property/casualty insurance industry expect 2016 to be a profitable year much like 2015 but do not see any increase in profitability this year for most lines of insurance, and they do ...
Google Chairman Says Standards Needed to Unlock Promise of Artificial Intelligence
Google's chairman thinks artificial intelligence will let scientists solve some of the world's "hard problems," like population growth, climate change, human development, and education. Rapid ...
Autonomous Drive From L.A. to New York Just Two Years Away: Musk
Tesla Motors Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said within two years a customer would be able to summon an electric car to drive autonomously from Los Angeles to New York. "I might be slightly ...
Insurers Ramp Up Wider Big Data Embrace for 2016: Novarica
Insurers appear ready to accelerate their embrace of big data, analytics and other aspects of emerging technology as they head into 2016, Novarica concluded in its third annual report on the matter. ...
AIG Invests in Worker Safety Wearable Device Tech Startup
AIG is investing in an early-stage technology startup developing wearable devices, analytics and systems to improve worker safety. Financial terms of the mega-insurer's investment in Human Condition ...